Reality check: How’s the transition to regenerative agriculture going?
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6 Simple Ways to Design a Toxin-Free and Eco-Friendly Bedroom
U.S. Green Technology
MAY 18, 2022
When we are teenagers, we deal with the changes in our life by dyeing our hair blond (because blonds have more fun, of course) or changing our style, but now, as adults, we deal with changes in a slightly different way. We become interior designers! Sometimes moving our furniture around (PIVOT) is simply not going. The post 6 Simple Ways to Design a Toxin-Free and Eco-Friendly Bedroom appeared first on U.S.
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Walmart begins search for sustainable packaging
GreenBiz
MAY 20, 2022
The retail giant launched its Circular Connector "to accelerate innovation in the field of sustainable and circular packaging.
Creators of underwater, eco-friendly concrete are finalists in the European Inventor Award
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 17, 2022
The inventors of an innovative building material for sea walls are finalists in the European Inventor Award 2022. ECOncrete® founder and CEO, Ido Sella, has been nominated for the award, one of Europe’s most prestigious innovation prizes, alongside late co-founder Shimrit Perkol-Finkel. Launched by the European Patent Office (‘EPO’) in 2006, it honours individuals and teams behind solutions tackling some of the biggest challenges of our times.
How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Nextracker and Atkore Announce Dedicated Solar Tracker Manufacturing Line in Arizona
altenergymag
MAY 20, 2022
Nextracker and manufacturing partners commission second factory in two months, onshoring U.S.
Saving Your Home from Energy Vampires
U.S. Green Technology
MAY 18, 2022
Post-coronavirus inflation has sent the cost of groceries, gas and other essential goods soaring. Utilities are particularly steep — mainly due to natural gas price hikes — with the average electricity rate 10.7% higher than a year ago. In some parts of the country, energy inflation has many Americans wondering how to pay their utility. The post Saving Your Home from Energy Vampires appeared first on U.S.
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Heat network projects highlighted in review of South-East scheme
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MAY 17, 2022
The South East London Combined Heat and Power (SELCHP) facility in Lewisham will provide heat to several existing estates and schools in a new area of Southwark, in a £16 million project undertaken by Veolia. Over £250 million of funding has been awarded to heat network schemes under the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) since it opened its doors to applicants in 2018.
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Green Business Bureau
MAY 20, 2022
The Most Common Sustainability Program Challenges. Sustainability programs are not something an organization simply decides to implement without investment. It takes a serious commitment of people’s time and corporate capital. And when that investment is made wisely, the return will outweigh the initial costs made. For example, reports by the non-profit CDP found that for the S&P 500 companies, those that had sustainability built into their core strategy financially outperformed those that f
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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing
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In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
FOG summit to bring water and hospitality sectors together
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 17, 2022
The FOG Summit in Brighton in 2021. “Europe’s leading fat, oil and grease (FOG) summit” will bring together the hospitality sector and the water industry to develop collaborative and sustainable solutions to keep sewer networks clear. The European FOG Summit 2022 will have a strong focus on foodservice and commercial kitchens, to further explore how FOG can be removed at source before it enters the wastewater system.
GHG Protocol: Scope 2 Emissions Explained
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MAY 16, 2022
Three Scopes of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. In our previous article, titled Scope 1 2 3 Emissions Explained: Understanding the GHG Protocol’s Emission Classification System , we defined scope 1 emissions, scope 2 emissions, and scope 3 emissions as follows: Scope 1 emissions are GHGs released directly from a business. Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from the energy purchased by an organization.
Volvo Truck’s New Plant in Belgium Will Supply Ready-To-Install Batteries
Green Living Guy
MAY 20, 2022
Volvo Trucks is opening its very first battery assembly plant. Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full-electric heavy-duty trucks. “This investment shows our strong commitment to electrifying truck transportation. By 2030, at least 50 percent of all trucks we sell globally will be electric. And by 2040, we […].
Textile recycling tech startup triumphs in Circularity 22's Accelerate competition
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MAY 20, 2022
The Atlanta audience voted for Sortile, a New York-based startup that uses imaging technology to enable low-cost apparel sorting by fiber type.
Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium
With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.
Government funding for ammonia-to-hydrogen project in the Midlands
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 19, 2022
A consortium led by Gemserv has secured around £6.7 million from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to deliver the Tyseley Ammonia to Green Hydrogen Project, through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 Competition. The project aims to design, build, commission, and operate the world’s largest and most efficient ammonia to hydrogen conversion unit of its kind.
UCHU Spice: Providing Pepper Spice to a Global Market Sustainably Through Communities and Sustainable Agriculture
Green Business Bureau
MAY 17, 2022
UCHU spice and sustainable agriculture. Founded in 1967, UCHU Spice has given a tasty kick to global cuisines with their spicy pepper produce for years. Not only that, but they’re challenging intensive agricultural models by showing sustainable agriculture is not only needed but delivers better business. UCHU is a progressive leader driving a sustainable paradigm shift in the food industry, supporting smallholder farmers, local communities and biodiversity, while bringing high-quality pepper spi
Advocacy Group Launches Campaign to Stop Home Depot From Destroying Tropical Rainforests
Green Living Guy
MAY 20, 2022
[Atlanta, GA – May 16, 2022] In the runup to Home Depot’s May 19 shareholder meeting, the advocacy group Friends of the Chocó launches a campaign. The campaign goal is to highlight the company’s practice of carrying Sandeply plywood. It’s a Home Depot exclusive that comes from Ecuadorian manufacturer Endesa-Botrosa. The plywood is deforesting primary […].
What's hot in corporate renewable energy procurement
GreenBiz
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What’s inside the Clean Energy Buyer Association's latest ‘State of the Market’ report.
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
Food packaging will still be landfilled or incinerated without accelerated innovation
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 17, 2022
The study anticipates a shift from polymer-based to fibre-based packaging (pictured) by 2040. While recycling, reuse and composting of packaging continues to increase significantly, a fifth of all food packaging could still find its way to landfill and incineration even in two decades time, according to a study commissioned by sustainable packaging specialist UPM Specialty Papers.
Chile, Mexico and Colombia Making Strides in Road Safety Legislation
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MAY 19, 2022
The grave consequences of road traffic crashes are not a common theme in election campaigns. Nevertheless, the legislatures of Chile, Mexico and Colombia have recently advanced or are in the midst of debating valuable legislation to reduce traffic deaths and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
The EU Plans to Sell More Than 4.4 Million EVs by 2026
Green Living Guy
MAY 20, 2022
The European Union (EU) is the leading EV market globally. And according to a StockApps.com analysis, the EU will have sold 4.4 million EV units by 2026. The site suggests that a growing consciousness about the environment will propel that growth. StockApps.com’s Edith Reads has been discussing the data. She holds, “The European EV market […].
Crypto for good? Digital currencies hold potential to further financial inclusion
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Among crypto’s widely touted benefits are financial efficiency and inclusion, but drawbacks like high volatility, lack of regulation and anonymity that can lead to potentially nefarious financing, cause detractors to caution against it.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
Academic collaboration boosts SME efforts to reach net zero
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 16, 2022
One of the scheme’s participants, Runcorn-based Arvia Technology has drawn on the input of a Master’s research project in its development of an award-winning system for removing chemical pollutants from water. Twenty-two companies have so far collaborated with Lancaster University as part of the Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory (LCEI), a business support programme which aims to help Liverpool businesses reduce their carbon emissions and accelerate growth.
Battery passports will trace content and carbon footprint of EV batteries in Europe
Charged
MAY 16, 2022
Sustainability is the raison d’etre of EVs, so it’s obviously important to find a way to document the sustainable nature of the raw materials that go into EV batteries. A “battery passport” that traces the content and carbon footprint of batteries could be the solution, and that’s just what a new German-funded consortium of automakers and battery producers aims to develop.
How to Work a Greener Job
Green Living Guy
MAY 20, 2022
More and more people are looking for sustainable positions that allow them to be more conscious of the environment. A green job might be a good fit for you, as it allows you to support social and environmental responsibilities. Careers in solar panel engineering, holistic health, organic landscaping, and socially responsible advising are all open […].
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GreenBiz
MAY 16, 2022
Are they leading companies and investors to actually move the needle on the planet’s most pressing problems? If not, why do they exist?
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Envirotec Magazine
MAY 19, 2022
National Highways and Manchester Metropolitan University aim to create “a highly detailed map of the habitats found alongside England’s busiest roads to help boost biodiversity” (image: drone photography of the M6 in Cumbria). Manchester Metropolitan University has been commissioned to develop a new mapping system which will make it easier for National Highways to keep track of the ecosystems bordering the country’s 4,300 miles of motorways and major A-roads.
Gas giants paying zero income tax on Australian operations, new data shows
Renew Economy
MAY 16, 2022
As the gas and oil industry gathers in Brisbane for the annual APPEA summit, data shows some member companies paid no income tax for past seven years. The post Gas giants paying zero income tax on Australian operations, new data shows appeared first on RenewEconomy.
8 Of The Best Electric Cars For First-Time Drivers
Green Living Guy
MAY 20, 2022
Australia has not been on top of its game when it comes to electric cars. However, they are becoming increasingly popular, and more brands are popping up. This is exciting as it gives us more options to choose from. Choosing the right car can be tricky, but we have found the best of the lot to […]. The post 8 Of The Best Electric Cars For First-Time Drivers appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Flo
Bridgestone’s tires are going circular
GreenBiz
MAY 17, 2022
Through a partnership with LanzaTech, Bridgestone is scaling up a closed-looped system that uses bacteria to recreate the raw material for new rubber.
Appraising stressors on rivers’ ability to perform ecological functions
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 17, 2022
An essential ecosystem service of streams and rivers is their natural self-purification service. This can be assessed based on ecological functions such as nutrient retention or leaf litter decomposition. A new international meta-analysis identifies critical stressors, according to the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), which co-authored the study.
Too much wind and solar? Or just too much Angus Taylor?
Renew Economy
MAY 19, 2022
Australia's energy minister kept saying there is too much wind and solar. Now the industry agrees there is too much Angus Taylor, and the Coalition has to go. The post Too much wind and solar? Or just too much Angus Taylor? appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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